In this episode we make our final preparations to sail to Bermuda as part of our next attempt to cross the Atlantic. As usual its a frantic dash to the start line and the preparations, editing included, did not come together as we had hoped. At the time yo...
After Adam was less than impressed with the amount of weather helm that our boat was putting out on our recent sail from Ice Fourchue, we decide to make the most of a sunny day in Grand Case, St Martin to retune our rig and ease some of the pressure.
Afte...
While testing our new Precision Sails last week, we sailed to the small island of Ile Fourchue. Before heading back, we jumped in for a swim and enjoyed having the bay all to ourselves.
We then took off for a fantastic day of sailing, ending up in Grand C...
The day of days has arrived! Our new Precision sails are here and we’re eager to get them on our boat and go for a sail!
In this episode we left from Marigot Bay in St Martin and headed south east around the island to a beautiful little spot called Ile...
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In this weeks Q&A we answer the following questions:
00:41 - What are our thoughts on sailing the Central American coast?
02:02 - Would we buy a Catamaran
04:56 - How does staysail and a jib work? Does it enhance sailing performance?
09:31 - Do we use ...
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Last week we finished installing our Hydrovane and immediately wanted to test it out.
So we pulled up anchor and hoisted our sails for a trip to Tintamarre, an island to the north of St Martin.
Having been on anchor for a few weeks waiting for bad weath...
This was one of those months where nothing came together.
The Christmas winds were in full swing in the Caribbean and we were stuck in the somewhat unsheltered outer anchorages of (not so) sunny St Martin.
After a month of relentless 30 knot winds, the...
This week an exciting package arrived that we’d been waiting for for a while.
We enthusiastically rented a car and headed to the shipping centre to pick it up... only to be told it was still on a boat heading to St Martin and would arrive in the next fe...
Q&A Time! We answer some of your best questions for us…
1:00 - How did we break the Hydrovane?
3:20 - How much of a head start do you need for a sailing YouTube channel?
4:56 - What are our top 3 locations in the Caribbean?
7:59 - What are our passa...
We’ve been gone for a few weeks but are back to update on our progress and location! We also have some other Q&A questions for you too…
1. Where have we been this past few weeks?
2. Do we have a live radar for our location? Check out sailingmillen...
We had to get back to doing a few boat jobs after all of our fun and frivolity of last episode and we introduce what we think is our biggest investment on the boat yet… a Hydrovane.
Adam has been raving about this piece of gear for at least two years a...
We finally put the tools down and spent the afternoon sailing to Grand Case for a bit of beach time. The first evening we treated ourselves to a huge (but cheap!) grill and the next day dove right in to our mini holiday... literally, as we went for a snork...
This week we finished up what was meant to be a small boat job - a spring clean of the aft cabin bed and the v-berth.
We ripped out all of our cabin sole, water heater, batteries, rotten wood and more and started from scratch. Painting a clean, white spac...
This episode was supposed to be a nice and easy holiday construction project. However, in true Millennial Falcon fashion it did not go to plan. In addition to finding a LOT more rotted wood than we had hoped, the weather over the Christmas holidays turned ...
In this episode, the day after we arrived in St Martin we got a message from Adams childhood friend who is crewing on a mega yacht. He said he'd be arriving into St Martin the very next day and that we were invited to check out his workplace... a 62m (203f...
Bringing you more lessons that we've learnt throughout our 3 years of sailing. Our first video, found here: was the start of our tips... until we ran out of time! These are the best of the rest.
We hope you gain some value from these stories and learnt f...
In this week's episode we finish our 350 mile sail to St Maarten. A bout of sea sickness floored me during the second day but on the third and final day, I'm back on the team and raring to go... all in time to just arrive! We both say how much we wish for ...
Only 3 days after finishing up our rigging we decided to give it a good test… a 360 mile test sail in fact in St Martin.
We were both very excited to undertake e a multi day passage and chose a longer passage mainly for this reason. Our other deciding f...
The last piece of our rigging arrives in Grenada and I set off on the daily ferry to go and collect it.
Having a lot of time to kill while waiting for the return ferry that evening, I got up to a bit of mischief... all in the name of giving back to the co...
In this weeks episode we take the Falcon dockside here in Carriacou, Grenada to tackle one of the last parts of our DIY rigging overhaul, the forestay. After some interesting maneuvering to get alongside the dock and some confusion amongst the line handler...
Last month we pulled into a marina for 3 days to complete an ongoing rigging project to replace all of our stays. While in the marina, we installed all but one - the forestay.
It was finally time to install it and the best marina we could do it in was 25...
A lot happens in this week's episode!
I guess Adam summed it up in this episode when we said that there was lots of things to do on the boat that he kept starting, and not finishing... so instead he had a haircut!
But our main problem of the hour was a b...
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